for galatic organizations, the catagories varry... it almost always has history, but for some, it talks about the uniforms, and training, to education, p-scale, or whatever.

same thing for most of the others... for places, places it gives are like... earth, and then the main topics are the main cities....

but anyways, i think the correspondance is kinda obvious... replace sentient races with children of eru, perhapes, or children of middle earth, or something, and then have sections for history, physiology, psychology, or whatever...

so, anyways... they did it, it served them well, and... i think it's something we should consider, too

although if we did this, it would be a good idea to have a little disclaimer at the bottom pointing this out. the encyclopedia i linked to above has, itself, such a disclaimer, that is sorta mentioned HERE.

Then on a timeMelko assembled all his most cunning smiths and sorcerers, and of iron and flame they wrought a host of monsters such as have onlyat that time been seen and shall not again be till the Great End.Some were all of iron so cunningly linked that they might flow like slow rivers of metal or coil themselves around and above allobstacles before them, and these were filled in their innermostdepths with the grimmest of the Orcs with scimitars and spears;others of bronze and copper were given hearts and spirits ofblazing fire, and they blasted all that stood before them with theterror of their snorting or trampled whatso escaped the ardour oftheir breath; yet others were creatures of pure flame that writhedlike ropes of molten metal, and they brought to ruin whateverfabric they came nigh, and iron and stone melted before them andbecame as water, and upon them rode the Balrogs in hundreds; and these were the most dire of all those monsters which Melkodevised against Gondolin.

that's from the book of lost tales, part i. now, of course, there are only supposed to be seven balrogs, at most, in later stories, but ah well... so one part of it is wrong.

And now came the Monsters across the valley and the whitetowers of Gondolin reddened before them; but the stoutest werein dread seeing those dragons of fire and those serpents of bronzeand iron that fare already about the hill of the city; and they shotunavailing arrows at them. Then is there a cry of hope, for behold,the snakes of fire may not climb the hill for its steepness and for itsglassiness, and by reason of the quenching waters that fall upon itssides; yet they lie about its feet and a vast steam arises where thestreams of Amon Gwareth and the flames of the serpents drivetogether. Then grew there such a heat that women became faintand men sweated to weariness beneath their mail, and all thesprings of the city, save only the fountain of the king, grew hot andsmoked.But now Gothmog lord of Balrogs, captain of the hosts ofMelko, took counsel and gathered all his things of iron that couldcoil themselves around and above all obstacles before them. Thesehe bade pile themselves before the northern gate; and behold,their great spires reached even to its threshold and thrust at thetowers and bastions about it, and by reason of the exceeding heaviness of their bodies those gates fell, and great was the noisethereof: yet the most of the walls around them still stood firm.Then the engines and the catapults of the king poured darts andboulders and molten metals on those ruthless beasts, and theirhollow bellies clanged beneath the buffeting, yet it availed not forthey might not be broken, and the fires rolled off them. Then werethe topmost opened about their middles, and an innumerable hostof the Orcs, the goblins of hatred, poured therefrom into thebreach; and who shall tell of the gleam of their scimitars or theflash of the broad-bladed spears with which they stabbed?Then did Rog shout in a mighty voice, and all the people of the,Hammer of Wrath and the kindred of the Tree with Galdor thevaliant leapt at the foe. There the blows of their great hammersand the dint of their clubs rang to the Encircling Mountains andthe Orcs fell like leaves; and those of the Swallow and the Archpoured arrows like the dark rains of autumn upon them, and bothOrcs and Gondothlim fell thereunder for the smoke and theconfusion. Great was that battle, yet for all their valour theGondothlim by reason of the might of ever increasing numberswere borne slowly backwards till the goblins held part of thenorthernmost city.

Now was the battle at that gate very evil indeed, and Duilin ofthe Swallow as he shot from the walls was smitten by a fiery boltof the Balrogs who leapt about the base of Amon Gwareth; and hefell from the battlements and perished. Then the Balrogs con-tinued to shoot darts of fire and flaming arrows like small snakes into the sky, and these fell upon the roofs and gardens of Gondolintill all the trees were scorched, and the flowers and grass burnedup, and the whiteness of those walls and colonnades was blackenedand seared: yet a worse matter was it that a company of thosedemons climbed upon the coils of the serpents of iron and thenceloosed unceasingly from their bows and slings till a fire began toburn in the city to the back of the main army of the defenders.

Invent names?! Let's burn TerraFrost in the pyre!!!
Just kidding, if a disclaimer is added, I think there is no much problem, although I would rather leave them unknowned or say something like "which name could have been" than straightaway inventing it and later add the disclaimer...

Anyway to make it a collective task we definitely need a work method, and possibly a Project leader.. I would love to contribute, but cannot be the leader as I am pretty busy with work

High King of the Noldor in Middle-EarthHonorary Knight of the Pointy Shiney"... All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die"

i guess for now, we could all just sorta volunteer to take on a few catagories, or something. also, i think it might be neat to, instead of sorta paraphrase descriptions, to just use tolkien's descriptions. if he had multiple descriptions, he could sorta include 'em all, or something. after i've finished with the few php scripts i have left to work on, i could sorta come up with a homepage showcasing what i mean

I dunno what I would write about, so many choices. But I dont think I could start anytime soon. The beginning of the school year is not a good time to try to get me to do anything heh. Just have too much on my hands right now.